Kuwait: Kuwait 1945-1996: An Anglo-American Perspective

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Kuwait 1945-1996: An Anglo-American Perspective, by Miriam Joyce. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass Press, 1998. xxiii + 182 pages. Index to p. 177. $22.50.

In this book, Miriam Joyce reflects on Kuwait's political history through the eyes of British and, to a lesser extent, US officials in charge of relations with this Gulf country. Utilizing British and American declassified dispatches, the author touches on most of the salient political and public policy issues that Kuwait faced in its long march to independence. The book details Kuwait's evolution from a small coastal town administered by the Governor of Basra, in Iraq, through independence, to the events which led to the …